Unit 2 Exploring English Developing ideas 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 2 Exploring English Developing ideas: Misadventures in English Read the dialogue and guess the meaning. You know what, the guy we were talking with is a big potato in our company. You don’t say！ A big potato: A very important figure or someone of a high status in a field. Lead in “What's up?”, I said to him. “Nothing much,” he answered. What’s going on? 你好/出了什么事？ Lead in Read the dialogue and guess the meaning. Lead in Read the following expressions and guess their meanings. at sixes and sevens My room is at sixes and sevens. in a confused, badly-organised, or difficult situation=in a mess Read the following expressions and guess their meanings. James Carson - the name rings a bell, I’ve heard it before. To sound familiar. Lead in Read the following expressions and guess their meanings. pull up one’s socks We need to pull up our socks to struggle with difficulties. to improve your work or behavior Lead in Mother has green fingers. natural ability in growing plants 园艺高手 Read the following expressions and guess their meanings. Lead in In summer, mothers like to put toilet water to make its sound better in the bath basin. toilet water A light perfume that does not have a very strong smell Lead in Read the expression and guess the meaning. Look at the title and predict(预测) what the passage is about. Misadventures in English adventures: unusual experiences/journeys mis: miss/unsuccessful Unsuccessful unusual experiences in English Prediction Prediction What is the style/genre of this passage? It is a forum post. What is the main idea of the passage? A．Trouble in learning English. B．A bad experience. C．Misunderstandings of English words. D．The benefit of learning English. What expression confused different people. She had a frog in her throat. ??? the ground floor/ the first floor ??? wicked ??? not bad ??? Read quickly Read carefully Read the definitions of the words and expressions that caused the misunderstandings. Match the definitions to the posts. Yancy's post Sophie's post Julien's post Zheng Xu's post 12 Find and guess What examples of Internet language are used in the passage? What do they mean? Think share ____________ COZ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ likes because sad confused angry Think critically What caused their misunderstandings? BE vs. AE Idioms: literal vs. real meaning Contexts Cross-cultural understanding Not bad? Share your stories (5 mins for discussion) Have you had misadventures in English? Idiom/BE VS. AE/Context/Cross-cultural This summer (when), I went to London (where) to visit my penfriend (who). He had told me that his grandfather was “really wicked” (what happened). However, when I met his grandfather, I liked him very much. Why did my penfriend use a negative word on such a nice man? /What does…mean?/What’s that for?/It mean…right? To understand what it mean, I asked…/ referred to the dictionary/searched for more information online. Finally, I… How did you solve it? Checklist: complete; logical; clear; interesting Example 1 Yesterday, I had an important football match. I felt very nervous, so I talked to my new friend about it. He is a nice and friendly boy from England. However, he wished me to break a leg. Why did he want me to get hurt? Good luck! Think and share Example 2: My classmate Kate is from America. Last summer, she wanted to take part in a Chinese speech competition and she asked me to help her. We practised in our classroom. Although it was 30℃ inside the classroom, she kept telling me that she got cold feet. Was she sick? nervous; frightened Think and share What are phrases, idioms and slangs? Thank you! Lavf58.20.100 Packed by Bilibili XCoder v2.0.2 $$